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And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is
not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
There is a miracle of friendship
that dwells within the heart
You don't know how it happens
or when it gets it's start
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
And you realize that Friendship
is God s most perfect gift.....
Here are some songs that give u a glimpse of my inner emotions...
father of mine
tell me where have you been
you know i just closed my eyes
my whole world disappeared
father of mine
take me back to the day
when i was still your golden boy
back before you went away
i remember blue skies
walking the block
i loved it when you held me high
i loved to hear you talk
you would take me to the movie
you would take me to the beach
you would take me to a place inside
that is so hard to reach
father of mine
tell me where did you go
you had the world inside your hand
but you did not seem to know
father of mine
tell me what do you see
when you look back at your wasted life
and you don't see me
i was ten years ole
doing all that i could
it wasn't easy for me
to be a scared white boy
in a black neighborhood
sometimes you would send me a birthday card
with a five dollar bill
i never understood you then
and i guess i never will
daddy gave me a name
my dad he gave me a name
then he walked away
daddy gave me a name
then he walked away
my dad he gave me a name
father of mine
tell me where have you been
i just closed my eyes
and the world disappeared
father of mine
tell me how do you sleep
with the children you abandoned
and the wife i saw you beat
i will never be safe
i will never be sane
i will always be weird inside
i will always be lame
now i'm a grown man
with a child of my own
and i swear that i'm not going to let her know
all the pain i have known
then he walked away
daddy gave me a name
then he walked away
my dad he gave me a name
then he walked away
daddy gave me a name
then he walked away
my dad he gave me a name
then he walked away
.......................... Next Song
I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
Hope it's over when I open them
I want the things that I had before
Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again
Hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
Hear them scream, I hear them fight
Say bad words that make me wanna cry
Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream adventures that will make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world's so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now
(Na na na na na na na....)
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
I go to school and I run and play
I tell the kids that it's all okay
I laugh alot so my friends won't know
When the bell rings I just don't wanna go home
Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don't believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world is so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
(Na na na na na na na....)
I don't wanna hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna hear you say
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna meet your friends
And I don't wanna start over again
I just wanna my life to be the same
Just like it used to be
Somedays I hate everything
everyone and everything
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
(Repeat Until End...)....yea thats really me in a nutshell
Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity
November 5, 2007 |
WASHINGTON, DC—According to
a groundbreaking new study by the Department of Labor, working—the
physical act of engaging in a productive job-related activity—may
greatly increase the amount of work accomplished during the workday,
especially when compared with the more common practices of wasting time
and not working.
A not so devoted worker can triple his work output by working.
"Our findings are astounding: By simply sitting down and doing work,
employees can dramatically increase their output of goods and
services," said Deputy Undersecretary of Labor Charlotte Ponticelli,
who authored the report. "In fact, 'working' may revolutionize the way
people work."
Perhaps even more shocking, the study reveals that not working
significantly decreases worker productivity, sometimes even resulting
in no work getting done at all. Similar findings were reported in the
areas of avoiding work, putting off work, complaining about work
instead of actually working, pretending to work, and ???ing around.
"Fucking around is in fact detrimental to the work process," the study reads in part.
To conduct the study, researchers split the staff of a
Washington-based insurance company into two groups and assigned each
group a series of tasks to be completed by the end of the day. The
control group engaged in normal workplace activities, such as standing
around and talking, staring vacantly at the computer screen, and
surfing the Internet. The other group was instructed to do work and
complete its given tasks. Incredibly, the group that did not do any
work failed to get any work done, while the group that did do work
finished all the work.
The researchers believe that these lessons could possibly be applied to fields outside the insurance industry.
Typical workplace activities, such as shooting the ???, turn out to be less productive than not wasting time.
"Based on the study, we can safely conclude that if an employee's
job is to process expense reports, doing a crossword puzzle will result
in the successful completion of that task zero times out of 100, while
processing expense reports will result in the successful completion of
that task 100 times out of 100," head researcher Richard Schoemberg
said.
Jon Halper, a Baltimore-area small-business owner, claims that
people used to laugh whenever he told them that the key to worker
productivity was not checking friends' MySpace pages for hours at a
time, but rather working.
"After this study, I feel vindicated," said Halper, who believes
working is so important that for years he has required all his
employees to work throughout the day. "Hopefully, more companies will
embrace the idea that employees working on things that they are
supposed to do is practically essential."
A similar study conducted at Harvard University over a period of
three years attempted to determine conclusively whether working was
more productive than various different subsets of not working. The
results showed across the board that working is 100 percent more
productive than listening to music and checking e-mails, 100 percent
more productive than meandering around the office socializing with
coworkers, 100 percent more productive than playing online Sudoku, 100
percent more productive than watching YouTube videos of nostalgic
childhood television programming, 100 percent more productive than
reading celebrity-gossip blogs while chatting with friends on Instant
Messenger, 100 percent more productive than napping, and 98.2 percent
more productive than not showing up to work.
Despite the staggering new findings, many American workers say that they still do not feel comfortable working on the job.
"I love coming into work every day," Arlington, VA sales manager
Bryce Davidson said. "I get to have great conversations with [office
receptionist] Sandy, challenge myself with Yahoo! TextTwist, and still
have time to set my fantasy-football roster. Why would I want to ruin
work by working?"
